Re: Not a police story...

So a chap I know who worked at a southern fried joint said the recipe for their infamous gravy is: sweep up all the crust granules that fall off the chicken while it sits breeding salmonella under the heat lamp, add water, stir vigorously until it is gravy.

And then there was the time the morning's sweepings hit the floor ....

Re: ROFLMAO

Re: Re: Solaris

But a lucrative pimple: if you are still in the SPARC ecosystem the number of suppliers will keep shrinking and Oracle can keep raising prices ... I've heard of old platforms where the handful of remaining vendors and/or service providers can charge whatever they want just to answer the phone.

Re: Re: This story seems to contradict other recently published stories on this topic

We reported exactly what AWS published and none of that mentioned multi-hypervisor strategies. When we saw AWS' posts we immediately asked AWS for comment. As it happens, AWS immediately reached out to ask us for a correction of an unrelated error in the piece (I mixed up cores and threads). So there goes the "AWS is too busy and you don't matter to it" argument.

They know where to find us and are not shy about doing so.

But AWS never asked for any change to either piece regarding the hypervisor content. I was not aware of the TechTarget piece until today and will refer to it now.

We don't aim to be relevant to vendors. We aim to be relevant to readers. And I'm pretty sure they appreciated reading about a significant piece of news here, first, TWO WEEKS before TechTarget touched it.

Re: This story seems to contradict other recently published stories on this topic

Nice of them to tell that to Techtarget - as our story states, when we read of the new KVM hypervizor, we immediately asked AWS for an interview about their strategy. And they never replied. Further, their statements to TechTarget contradict the words in their own FAQ, which said all new instance types would use KVM. See our second story for the screen grabs to that effect

Re: Disappointed in El Reg

Well I'd love to tell you that we plan April 1 gags months in advance and even spend on patent applications to make them more real. But we're just not that organised. And do you know what it costs to file a patent?

Re: Re: Er... sniff test fail

Re: Er... sniff test fail

Really? For starters, I won't have my byline on native marketing. And it is Just Not Something We Do At The Reg. Indeed, we mark such stuff as PROMO every time. And we do precious little of that.

Secondly, I think you're glass-half-emptying this. I look at it this story as as finding a customer-only communique, pointing out it will mean a forced migration, identifying a market shift and offered some analysis on how this could be a deeper play.

Re: Re: A better solution...

FWIW, when all we have is vaguely-related stock, we have the option to use a tag so it doesn't appear. I do so for most stories. The idea is that if the image doesn't help to tell the story, we don't use it. We also have a size limit on header images to help page load times.

No, my theory is not that these announcements are connected to decreasing sales. I raise the possibility that Cisco, which is on the record in an earnings call and to me personally as saying its converged systems sales are not good enough, might have felt that poorly-integrated data protection could help things along. I put that to Cisco, they deny it, so I am not sure how that comes out as Cisco-bashing.

Reference architectures are pretty dull. The "edge" in the story is an attempt to make them a teensy bit less so.

Ridiculous theories? All I did was ask Cisco if the fact two of these came along at once was a plan. And I do not point out that everyone can do what Veeam is doing with the Hyperflex API. I point out that anyone else >could<, should they choose to do so. In my conversation with Veeam they told me as much.

Re: why would you believe a government "statement"

Why believe it? Because when a government is confident enough to put out a statement like that, it quadruples the ridicule it invites if proven incorrect. I assume the Indian government has little interest in blowing itself up!